PSYCH 156A Lecture Notes - Linguistic Prescription, Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Phoneme
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Childes database, computational modeling, hypothesis space, data intake, update procedure. Morphology: system for combining units of meaning together (goblin+[plural]=goblins) Lexicon: words and associated knowledge (word forms, word meanings, etc. ) goblins=(not koblins) Don"t goblins like children?=surprise if answer is no" (expectations is yes") Phonemes: basic perceptual units of which speech is composed. Languages have a finite inventory of these units. They are contrastive: changing a phoneme can change meaning (pig vs big). Morphemes: morphemes are the smallest meaningful units of language. Morphemes combine to form the words of a language. Ex: he"s a regifter! (re + gift +er) Combination is rule-governed: regifter is okay but not. Bound morpheme: bound (usually grammatical) morphemes cannot stand alone: ing, -s, -ed. Derivational morpheme: derivational: re + gift, sensation + al. Update procedure: phronology sounds and sound systems (gablinz goblins, morphology system for combining units of meaning together (goblin. Ex: input: arabic numerals, output: arabic numerals, method of transformation: rules of addition.
